Standing Technique for Breast Exam

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Monthly self breast exams allows you to understand how your breast, normally look and feel, so that if changes do occur, you can detect those changes sooner and consult with your doctor immediately. When performing a monthly breast self exam, in a vertical position, standing up, you want to ask your partner to, obviously, expose their breast. If you're examining the right breast, you want your partner to lift her right hand, above her head, exposing what's called the axillary area, a very important area to examine every month. When performing the monthly examine, you want to start from the axillary area and move down slowly in what's called a grid fashion. I'm going to do a grid fashion examination, in the axillary area first and once you examine that area, in its entirety, which includes the armpit over to the collar bone and the sternum, you'll proceed down to the breast. The breast area is very important to check, particularly this upper outer quadrant, where most breast tissue is found and you want to press firmly and palpate the breast, as I'm doing here, pressing firmly and again, using a grid fashion. I'm going up and down, across her breast tissue and what I'm looking for is any lumps, they may be hard or soft, they may have rounded or uneven edges and other symptoms I'm looking for is swelling, skin irritation, skin dimpling and even nipple discharge or an inward turned nipple. Pay particular attention, in the vertical position, to examine underneath the breast tissue because cancerous lumps can be found in the bottom of the breast up the sternum and collar bone and back around the axillary area. Examine that thoroughly and take approximately five to ten minutes, per breast, during your monthly breast self examine.

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